Welcome to the Cove, Ivan!
ivan99 said:
I need an opinion on posters that are really disguised work instructions and on workmanship standards that are also posted in the work environment. Do these posters need to be controlled documents??
My vote is yes because of a section within 4.2 "Documentation requirements." 4.2.1 d) states "The quality management system documentation shall include documents needed by the organization to ensure the effective planing, operation and control of its processes..."
You yourself called them work instructions (albeit disguised ones). To me, that implies that they are necessary for individuals to have access to when it comes to successfully completing their tasks.
Same thing for the workmanship standards. These (by the sounds of it) contain information vital to an individual's ability to complete their task.
The extent of control you take however, is up to you. Depending on the source of the workmanship standards, I'm tempted to call them External Documents. In our case, we list our External Documents, where they're posted, the release that is posted, and that's about it.
The work instructions (assuming they're developed by your people) would follow whatever internal document control process you have in place.